INTERSECTION WHERE IT HAPPENED.
THIS POLICE DEPARTMENT IS NOW
SLASHING THEIR HOMICIDE
DIVISION.
THEY ARE SAYING THAT THEY DEFUND
THE POLICE MIND-SET HAS TORN
THEIR VISION APART.
THERE WERE 181 HOMICIDES IN THAT
CITY IN JUST THE FIRST SIX
MONTHS OF THIS YEAR, THE HIGHEST NUMBERS THEY’VE SEEN IN MORE
NUMBERS THEY’VE SEEN IN MORE
THAN 15 YEARS.
JOE CONCHA, FOX NEWS
CONTRIBUTOR, MEDIA AND -- JOINS
US NOW.
IT IS VERY INTERESTING.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SITUATION
UNFOLDING IN LOS ANGELES, THEY
ARE ONE OF THE POTENTIAL
NOMINEES IN A SHORT LIST FOR
THIS NOMINATION IF JOE BIDEN
DOES NOT RUN.
JOE BIDEN --
CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN IN TOUGH
SHAPE.
>> EXACTLY, AND GOOD TO SEE YOU.
WE KEEP HEARING HOW GAVIN NEWSOM
COULD BE A SERIOUS PRESIDENT IF
JOE BIDEN DECIDES NOT TO SEEK A
SECOND TERM.
TO YOUR POINT, LOOK AT
CALIFORNIA.
YOU SEE THE NUMBERS ON THE
SCREEN, PLUS HOMELESSNESS
SKYROCKETING IN THESE PLACES.
THERE HAS BEEN A MAJOR EXODUS OF
PEOPLE AND COMPANIES OUT OF
CALIFORNIA FOR STATES LIKE
TEXAS, AND I JUST WONDER WHAT
RECORD GAVIN NEWSOM RUNS ON.
FOR ME -- "I WILL TURN AMERICA
INTO CALIFORNIA."
I DON’T THINK THAT WILL RESONATE
WELL.
HE’S GOT NICE HAIR, HE’S
YOUNGER, AND I GUESS THAT CAN BE
APPEALING TO A MEDIA THAT HAS
SIZZLE OVER STATE, BUT WHEN YOU
LOOK AT CALIFORNIA, THE WAY THEY
CONDUCT THEMSELVES IN TERMS OF
CUTTING POLICE FORCES AS MURDER
RATES RISE, THERE IS NO LOGIC TO
IT.
>> IT’S A NATIONAL SECURITY
PROBLEM WHEN YOU LOOK AT HOW
MANY POLICE OFFICERS HAVE LEFT
THE FORCE.
THE REMAINING CITIES ACROSS THE
COUNTRY ARE IN A POSITION WHERE
YOU ARE NOT AS SAFE AS YOU USED
TO BE.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ RUNNING
INTO THIS ISSUE AS WELL.
FOX DIGITAL ASKED PEOPLE WHAT
THEY THOUGHT ABOUT THE EMPHASIS
AWAY FROM POLICE, DRAWING THEM
AWAY FROM THE FORCE IN DROVES.
>> NO, YOU CAN’T DEFUND THE
POLICE.
I DON’T THINK IT’S A GOOD IDEA
TO DEFUND THE POLICE, ESPECIALLY
WITH CRIME GOING UP.
THERE NEEDS TO BE ANOTHER
SOLUTION.
ANNOUNCEMENT BY A FORMER NYPD
OFFICER SHOWS THAT CRIME IS ON
THE RISE, A 57% SPICE IN AOC’S
DISTRICT IN WHAT THEY CALL MAJOR
CRIMES, AND A 42% SURGE IN MAJOR
FELONIES.
IT IS AN ISSUE, TO BE SURE.
>> SPEAKING OF SIZZLE OVER
STATE, WITH AOC, WE ALMOST
RARELY HEAR HER TALK ABOUT
CRIME, UNLESS IT IS ABOUT
DEFUNDING THE POLICE, WHICH IS
STILL THE STANCE SHE TAKES.
WE SEE IT EVERY DAY.
CRIMINALS ARE MORE AND MORE
BRAZEN, BECAUSE WE SEE A RECORD
NUMBER OF POLICE OFFICERS
RETIRING.
THEY ARE TIRED OF BEING
PORTRAYED IT -- THEY USED TO BE
HUGH ROSE.
USED TO HEAR ABOUT THE POLICE
OFFICER THAT WOULD PROTECT THE
COMMUNITY, BUT NOW THEY MUST BE
VILIFIED.
IT’S AMAZING THAT THEY AREN’T
FIRED FOR DOING THEIR JOBS, OR
GOVERNORS LIKE -- IN NEW YORK,
WHO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THESE
RIDICULOUS BAYEUX LAWS THAT GET
CRIMINALS BACK OUT TO THE STREET
SO THEY CAN HURT OR KILL PEOPLE
AGAIN.
HE’S JUST GOING HOME FROM HIS
JOB IN THE SUBWAY, HE WAS OUT ON
BAIL, WAITING FOR CHARGES FOR ASSAULT -- AS LONG AS THEY ARE
ASSAULT -- AS LONG AS THEY ARE
IN CHARGE, IT’S JUST GOING TO
CONTINUE.
AT THE BACK AND NECK, IS NOT
HAPPENING. THAT’S A BIG PROBLEM WE ARE
THAT’S A BIG PROBLEM WE ARE SEEING IN NEW.
YOU’RE RIGHT
YOU’RE RIGHT AND THAT THIS
RUSSIAN STORY ON U.S. TROOPS,
AND TRUMP DID NOTHING ABOUT IT
BECAUSE HE IS A RUSSIAN STOOGE.
WITH ALL THE STORIES GOING IN
ONE DIRECTION --
YOU CAN SEE WHY, IF YOU ARE A
TRUMP SUPPORTER, YOU WANT TO